▲ 88 ▼ Canyon De Chelly (lemmy.world) submitted 1 year ago by DioramaOfShit@lemmy.world to c/historyruins@lemmy.world 6 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] Drusas@fedia.io 2 points 1 year ago (4 children) Looks more like geology ruins than history ruins. permalink fedilink source hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] egrets@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago* E N H A N C E It's Tse yaa Kin ("house under the rock"), known as Mummy Cave, in Canyon del Muerto. The most recent ruins are ~700 years old; the oldest archeological traces could be ~1700 years old. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Skua@kbin.earth 7 points 1 year ago (1 child) There are some pretty big buildings in there! Apparently the site (the Mummy Cave ruins in the Canyon de Chelly park) consists of about 70 rooms between the different buildings. Not sure how many buildings there are, I can see three distinct ones in this pic but since only one of them is still mostly standing I can imagine there are others than are harder to see permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Drusas@fedia.io 2 points 1 year ago Oh, that is very cool. I would love to be able to see that in person someday. permalink fedilink source parent [+] Deceptichum 5 points 1 year ago* (1 child) [removed by mod] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago You know how it is, look away from a geological formation for a few million years, and when you look back, out of nowhere, houses! Insane stuff, nature is truly amazing permalink fedilink source parent load more comments (-1 replies)
[–] egrets@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago* E N H A N C E It's Tse yaa Kin ("house under the rock"), known as Mummy Cave, in Canyon del Muerto. The most recent ruins are ~700 years old; the oldest archeological traces could be ~1700 years old. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Skua@kbin.earth 7 points 1 year ago (1 child) There are some pretty big buildings in there! Apparently the site (the Mummy Cave ruins in the Canyon de Chelly park) consists of about 70 rooms between the different buildings. Not sure how many buildings there are, I can see three distinct ones in this pic but since only one of them is still mostly standing I can imagine there are others than are harder to see permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Drusas@fedia.io 2 points 1 year ago Oh, that is very cool. I would love to be able to see that in person someday. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Drusas@fedia.io 2 points 1 year ago Oh, that is very cool. I would love to be able to see that in person someday. permalink fedilink source parent
[+] Deceptichum 5 points 1 year ago* (1 child) [removed by mod] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago You know how it is, look away from a geological formation for a few million years, and when you look back, out of nowhere, houses! Insane stuff, nature is truly amazing permalink fedilink source parent
[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago You know how it is, look away from a geological formation for a few million years, and when you look back, out of nowhere, houses! Insane stuff, nature is truly amazing permalink fedilink source parent
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